[BRLTTY] how to start and stop brltty

[John Covici]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:14:01 -0500,
Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by John Covici on 2021/02/24 at 10:56 -0500]
> 
> >When are these files supposed to be created?  If its only on reboot, I
> >have not rebooted since this all started.  It does look like  the
> >files are there, at least I checked /var/lib/BrlApi and that was there
> >the files being owned by root.
> 
> Yes, on reboot, but owned by root means that tmpfiles isn't done. Also, your
> bigger problem is sysusers so has the brltty user been created?
No,  that user has not been created, is that on reboot?  Also, I would
be perfectly happy to run it as root, if that is possible.

> 
> >I have no way to talk to the gentoo
> >developers, except to file a bug and the maintainer for this package
> >has been taking many months -- 
> 
> So why don't you just write to him/her directly?

I will seeee if he is still interested, but I got no response last
time I tried a couple of years ago.

> 
> Better yet, why not switch to a more reliable distribution?
> 
> >the last ebuild for this package was 6.1.  From 6.1 to 6.2 was not that
> >difficult, all I had to change was where it got the tarball from and a few
> >other things, but from 6.2 to 6.3 there have been more major changes I have to
> >deal with.  
> 
> And, for all any of us knows, there'll be yet more, possibly major, changes to
> come!
> 
> >Its a learning experience, definitely.
> 
> Sure, for you. It's also been a lot of time and effort for others.
> 
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